Digital Mapping of Soil Carbon

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-47

  Minasny, Budiman ^a   McBratney, Alex B ^a   Malone, Brendan P ^a   Wheeler, Ichsani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate change; Food security; Global carbon distribution; Soil carbon sequestration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871488406     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-405942-9.00001-3     Document Type: Chapter

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